20 Healthy Life Quotes to Motivate What Matters & Honor the Journey

I love change. Like everything, though, the experience of change can either be intensely painful or rich with possibility and that experience depends largely on our mindset. (Sometimes it’s even painful AND rich.) These healthy life quotes are motivational tools to remind you why you started walking the path of well-being, and why you want to continue moving in the direction of what matters most to you.

“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.” — Paulo Coelho

Perfection is overrated. Progress is life. This whole thing is a journey. What if intentional progress was perfection?

When I ponder living a healthy life that not only feels good to me but fuels me with the desire to support everyone around me, I think of patience and persistence. Sustainable results come over time, not overnight. We know that, but accepting and living it is another thing.

Be patient with yourself as you evolve.

Your will to live a healthy life is stronger than your cravings. And I’m not necessarily talking about food; cravings are attachments that come in many forms. Working with them and through them, getting to their roots, is a practice of focused awareness, and that’s difficult to maintain if we don’t cultivate patience.

Compassion, too: that’s another skill we can strengthen to help us overcome our long-held beliefs about what we’re capable of. Maybe that’s why I love change so much; I don’t always love the way change beckons me (like with a sudden loss or a weak body) but I am intrigued by what’s possible from this place.

One breath at a time, as long as I stay willing to build patience, courage, and compassion, I make progress. I make perfection obsolete. I become the journey. Growth unfolds with pain and grace, and I make it through something I once doubted could be behind me—I perform alchemy.

This gathering of healthy life quotes isn’t just about what’s on your plate or what your body can do: it’s about what you can do. It’s about honoring the struggle and shedding the doubt that you can stick to your “why.” (Your “why” is what matters most to you.) Also, it’s about respecting yourself no matter where you are on the journey.

Maybe, we can even learn how to enjoy ourselves in each step.

20 Healthy Life Quotes to Strengthen Your Patience, Compassion, and Courage to Continue

10. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker

11. “Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies and old decisions upon which the compulsion is based become apparent and fall away. When you no longer believe that eating will save your life when you feel exhausted or overwhelmed or lonely, you will stop. When you believe in yourself more than you believe in food, you will stop using food as if it were your only chance at not falling apart. When the shape of your body no longer matches the shape of your beliefs, the weight disappears.” – Geneen Roth

12. “The tension in your body translates to tension in your brain and this becomes the set up for building habits and performing activities that are based on that tension.”—Ashley Kidd

14. “To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.” — François de La Rochefoucauld

15. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” — Florence Nightingale

16. “Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.” — Mark Victor Hansen

Please share your favorite healthy life quotes from this collection, your main goal, your “why,” words of advice, what helps you stick to your vision, and any stories of transformation with me in the comments.

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Jennifer Williamson is the creator of Aim Happy, an online journal sharing healing messages to spark hope + joy. Rising from the ashes of losing her brother to suicide, she encourages daily loving dialogue through uplifting poetry, empowering affirmations, and down-to-earth wisdom. Every composition is an offering of light and an invitation to shine. She lives in Central Massachusetts.

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